50
51.
cases of trifling ailments requiring
hospital treatment, but only those who were excused by my orders from work and separated from their fellows.
IV. The Look Hospital.
I must be
very
brief in my remarks this establishment, as I propose at the end of the
year,
after three
years experience
the working of Ordinance 12 of 1857 . entering very fully into the whole question, in reference to which I have amassed a great number of data Thus much however I will now state; that I believe that it
now
ด
has already done incalculable
been the means
good, and been the
preventing incalculable wil. a
322
of
statement which I trust will
duty
it
encourage those whose is specially to see it enforced to persevere in their unpleasant but most important duties,
Of the importance of some be no
such measure there can doubt. Both
among
Naval and
Military invalids the syphilitis amount to nearly 25 per cent
very
of the whole, and this is nearly the same proportion in the Government bivil Hospital
In
one ship in 1859.